The Howling Salt Mine

Mini Masters, Backsies, and Maliciousness or Incompetence | HSM 226

The Howling Salt Mine

Show Notes

A mini masters event is supposedly single elimination, the art of when to accept or deny backsies (our new favorite word), and not announcing cards is cool when you aren't sure your opponents know what is going on.

Also, Sam walks us through a new and innovative deck building process where claims he actually knows how to finish decks now.

More from The Howling Salt Mine

Oct 15, 2026

Today mischievous dice rolls that could get people DQed, a spelltable opponent misunderstands and shouts through a storm win, and a pregame discussion mentions MLD in bracket 2 and yet the game is still played.

Oct 8, 2026

Snooki baptizes new cEDH players in staxy salt, a salty game with a deck described as "strong but not amazing" (whatever that means), and it turns out there is more than one win condition.

Oct 1, 2026

Pantlaza has a normal game while stomping and flickering in Vegas, understanding how priority works does in fact matter, and sometimes you just have a horrible, no good, very bad string of games. Also Tony discusses the best seat in the house for watching streams, and tries to say he's an angel who fights inner demons but loses (he is lying).

Sep 24, 2026

Today we walk through some of our favorite cards from the set including echo pairs, color shifted cards, potential cEDH cards, and of course, the cards we think will make people salty. Also whether you are a lore head or not buckle up because Sam takes us on a mini deep dive because hey, he's a lore guy now.

Sep 17, 2026

The ethics of scooping when you're goaded, the karma of colluding in a tournament of three player games, and a story where Sam searches for the salt. Valgavoth is best friends with Sire of Insanity, Dan Lewis is a card, and fancy icecream.

See all episodes →